Ralf Hielscher

6.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
47 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ralf Hielscher is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Hielscher has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Materials Chemistry, 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 9 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ralf Hielscher's work include Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (8 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (8 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (7 papers). Ralf Hielscher is often cited by papers focused on Medical Image Segmentation Techniques (8 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (8 papers) and Microstructure and mechanical properties (7 papers). Ralf Hielscher collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and France. Ralf Hielscher's co-authors include Helmut Schaeben, Florian Bachmann, David Mainprice, Gert Nolze, Tuomo Nyyssönen, Frank Nießen, Azdiar A. Gazder, Aimo Winkelmann, Peter E. Jupp and Wolfgang Pantleon and has published in prestigious journals such as Acta Materialia, Chemical Geology and Geophysical Journal International.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Hielscher

46 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Texture Analysis with MTEX – Free and Open Source Software Toolbox

2010 2.1k citations Florian Bachmann, Ralf Hielscher et al. profile →
A novel pole figure inversion method: specification of theMTEXalgorithm

2008 952 citations Ralf Hielscher, Helmut Schaeben Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →
Grain detection from 2d and 3d EBSD data—Specification of the MTEX algorithm

2011 580 citations Florian Bachmann, Ralf Hielscher et al. Ultramicroscopy profile →
Parent grain reconstruction from partially or fully transformed microstructures in MTEX

2022 191 citations Frank Nießen, Tuomo Nyyssönen et al. Journal of Applied Crystallography profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralf Hielscher Germany	21	2.9k	2.5k	1.3k	1.1k	631	47	5.3k
Helmut Schaeben Germany	20	2.5k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	580 0.9×	96	5.2k
Florian Bachmann Denmark	16	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	908 0.7×	682 0.6×	403 0.6×	34	3.5k
Mukul Kumar United States	35	4.1k 1.4×	4.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	405 0.4×	183 0.3×	128	6.9k
Stuart I. Wright United States	28	2.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	265 0.2×	205 0.3×	102	4.6k
Brent L. Adams United States	39	3.8k 1.3×	4.2k 1.7×	2.7k 2.0×	344 0.3×	326 0.5×	136	7.2k
Sven C. Vogel United States	52	5.6k 1.9×	6.7k 2.7×	1.8k 1.4×	748 0.7×	2.3k 3.7×	361	10.5k
Ronald W. Armstrong United States	33	4.0k 1.4×	5.3k 2.2×	3.1k 2.4×	439 0.4×	441 0.7×	172	7.2k
Patrick Trimby Australia	30	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	765 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	216 0.3×	100	4.0k
David P. Field United States	40	5.7k 2.0×	4.6k 1.9×	2.3k 1.7×	196 0.2×	520 0.8×	179	7.9k
Wolfgang Pantleon Denmark	29	2.4k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	217 0.2×	169 0.3×	139	3.7k

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Hielscher, Ralf, et al.. (2024). An optimal ansatz space for moving least squares approximation on spheres. Advances in Computational Mathematics. 50(6). 1 indexed citations

Filbir, Frank, Ralf Hielscher, Thomas Jahn, & Tino Ullrich. (2024). Marcinkiewicz–Zygmund inequalities for scattered and random data on the q-sphere. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 71. 101651–101651. 1 indexed citations

Nyyssönen, Tuomo, Azdiar A. Gazder, Ralf Hielscher, & Frank Nießen. (2023). Habit plane determination from reconstructed parent phase orientation maps. Acta Materialia. 255. 119035–119035. 23 indexed citations

Hielscher, Ralf, Tuomo Nyyssönen, Frank Nießen, & Azdiar A. Gazder. (2022). The variant graph approach to improved parent grain reconstruction. Materialia. 22. 101399–101399. 59 indexed citations

Becker, Hanka, Ralf Hielscher, & Andreas Leineweber. (2022). Interplay between Habit Plane and Orientation Relationship in an Electron Backscatter Diffraction Analysis: Using the Example of η′-Al8Fe3 in η-Al5Fe2. Crystals. 12(6). 813–813. 5 indexed citations

Hielscher, Ralf, et al.. (2022). Concentration inequalities for cross-validation in scattered data approximation. Journal of Approximation Theory. 277. 105715–105715. 2 indexed citations

Winkelmann, Aimo, Grzegorz Cios, Tomasz Tokarski, et al.. (2020). EBSD orientation analysis based on experimental Kikuchi reference patterns. Acta Materialia. 188. 376–385. 35 indexed citations

Cios, Grzegorz, Gert Nolze, Aimo Winkelmann, et al.. (2020). Approximant-based orientation determination of quasicrystals using electron backscatter diffraction. Ultramicroscopy. 218. 113093–113093. 7 indexed citations

Vajragupta, Napat, et al.. (2020). Optimized reconstruction of the crystallographic orientation density function based on a reduced set of orientations. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 53(1). 178–187. 18 indexed citations

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Hielscher, Ralf, et al.. (2019). Denoising of crystal orientation maps. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52(5). 984–996. 120 indexed citations

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Hielscher, Ralf, et al.. (2019). Gazing at crystal balls: Electron backscatter diffraction pattern analysis and cross correlation on the sphere. Ultramicroscopy. 207. 112836–112836. 37 indexed citations

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Sørensen, Bjørn Eske, Ralf Hielscher, & David Mainprice. (2018). EBSD AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPE LINKED THROUGH OPTICAL MODELLING OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHICAL DATA FROM EBSD AND 3D VISUALIZATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

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Mainprice, David, Florian Bachmann, Ralf Hielscher, Helmut Schaeben, & Geoffrey E. Lloyd. (2014). Calculating anisotropic piezoelectric properties from texture data using the MTEX open source package. Geological Society London Special Publications. 409(1). 223–249. 44 indexed citations

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Bachmann, Florian, Ralf Hielscher, Peter E. Jupp, et al.. (2010). Inferential statistics of electron backscatter diffraction data from within individual crystalline grains. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 43(6). 1338–1355. 105 indexed citations

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Hielscher, Ralf, et al.. (2010). Fast Summation of Functions on the Rotation Group. Mathematical Geosciences. 42(7). 773–794. 11 indexed citations

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Filbir, Frank, Ralf Hielscher, & W. R. Madych. (2009). Reconstruction from circular and spherical mean data. Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis. 29(1). 111–120. 13 indexed citations

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Hielscher, Ralf, Helmut Schaeben, & Daniel Chateigner. (2007). On the entropy to texture index relationship in quantitative texture analysis. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 40(2). 371–375. 16 indexed citations

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Schaeben, Helmut, Ralf Hielscher, Jean‐Jacques Fundenberger, Daniel Potts, & Jürgen Prestin. (2007). Orientation density function-controlled pole probability density function measurements: automated adaptive control of texture goniometers. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 40(3). 570–579. 20 indexed citations

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Boogaart, K. Gerald van den, Ralf Hielscher, Jürgen Prestin, & Helmut Schaeben. (2006). Kernel-based methods for inversion of the Radon transform on SO(3) and their applications to texture analysis. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 199(1). 122–140. 23 indexed citations

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Schaeben, Helmut, et al.. (2005). High Resolution Texture Analysis with Spherical Wavelets. Materials science forum. 495-497. 245–254. 1 indexed citations

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